Editing Ahmed al-Hasan (section)

== Claims ==
Ahmed al-Hasan, in his books like ''The Ideology of Islam'', after discussing the meaning of the religion, elaborates on the method by which the previous prophets and representatives of God introduced themselves and proved their righteousness.<ref name="Ideology of Islam"/><ref name="Law of Identifying the Vicegerent">{{cite book|last=Hashem al-Dirawi|first=AbdulRazaaq|title= "Law of Identifying the Vicegerent"|year=2012 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/9anon-ma3rifat-Al7oja.pdf}}</ref> He states that the most important element of their method is an identifying text or statement from their previous prophets, and anyone who claims that he is a representative of God, including himself, should come up with an identifying text in which he is mentioned.<ref name="Ideology of Islam"/><ref name="Evidence">{{cite book|last=Hashem al-Dirawi|first=AbdulRazaaq|title= "Comprehensive Evidence"|year=2014 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/198-Jami3-al-2adilla-2.pdf}}</ref> He also emphasizes a lot on visions and revelations seen by people in confirmation of messengers and representatives of God. He considers it a direct way by which God testifies to them.<ref name="Ideology of Islam">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "Ideology of Islam"|year=2016 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/204-3aqaed-islam.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Hajj">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Sermon of Hajj (English Version)"|year=2006 |pages= |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/Sermon-of-Hajj.pdf}}</ref> Many of his followers have reported experiences such as seeing visions and revelations confirming him <ref name="Meeting Story">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Sermon of Meeting Story"|year=2003 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88-%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1.pdf}}</ref> 
.<ref name="Jawab AlMuneer">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "الجواب المنير عبر الأثير(Vol 1-7)"|year=2010 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Al-Jawab-AlMonir-1.pdf}}</ref>

Ahmed al-Hasan claims there are many texts and prophecies, in the scriptures of different religions, mentioning him and his matter.<ref name="Successor in books Arabic">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran (Original Arabic)"|year=2010 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Wassiy-fi-9oran-tawrat-injil.pdf}}</ref> He has brought up texts, narrations, and prophecies from different resources like the [[Quran]], the [[Gospel]], and the [[Torah]], and has addressed why they are referring to him.<ref name="Successor in books English"/><ref name="Ahmed the Promised One"/>

===Purpose===
Regarding the purposes of his movement, he claimed:
"The goal of my message is the goal of the Prophets: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, which is to spread the true monotheism with which God is satisfied, and for the earth to be filled with peace and justice after it had been filled with oppression and injustice."<ref name="The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi (pbuh) in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi (pbuh) in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran"|year=2010 |pages=3 |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/successorandmessenger.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Zyad interview">{{Cite web |url=http://the-savior.com/home/index.php/79-slideshow/108-interview.html | title = Interview with Ahmad al-Hassan by independent journalist Zyad Qasim Al-Zubaidi | access-date = 2012-05-13 | work = the-savior.com | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410083200/http://www.the-savior.com/home/index.php/79-slideshow/108-interview.html | archive-date = 2012-04-10 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

===Muslims===
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| quote = " O Ali, there will be twelve Imams after me, and after them there will be twelve Mahdis. You, O Ali, are the first of the twelve Imams... Then if death approaches him, let him hand it over to his son, Muhammad, the Preserver of the Holy family of Muhammad. These are the twelve Imams. After him there will be twelve Mahdis. So if death approaches him, let him hand it over to his son, the first of the close ones. He has three names, one like mine and my father’s: Abdullah and Ahmed, and the third name is al-Mahdi. He is the first of the believers."
| source = Muhammad's Will according to Occultation by Al Tousi <ref name="Will in Tusi">{{cite book|last=(Shaykh Tusi)|first=Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi|title= "Ghaybat Al Tousi (Occultation by Al Tousi)"|year= |pages= 96 & 150|url= https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/27/1/26}}</ref>
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The most important text that Ahmed al-Hasan refers to is the [[Muhammad]]'s will, in which he states after him there will be twenty-four successors, twelve Imams, and twelve Mahdis.<ref name="Will in Tusi">{{cite book|last=(Shaykh Tusi)|first=Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi|title= "Ghaybat Al Tousi (Occultation by Al Tousi)"|year= |pages= 96 & 150|url= https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/27/1/26}}</ref> Muhammad names the first thirteen of his successors, from the first Imam, [[Ali]] ibn Abi Talib, to the first Mahdi, Ahmed, and Ahmed al-Hasan claims he is the Ahmed mentioned in the will of Muhammad. In other words, Ahmed al-Hasan introduced himself as the thirteenth successor of Muhammad and the direct successor of Imam [[Muhammad al-Mahdi]].

Muhammad's will is narrated in one of the oldest and most reliable narration books for Shiites, ''The Occultation'' ({{Langx|ar|کتاب الغیبه|links=no}}) by [[Shaykh Tusi]].<ref name="Will in Tusi"/> There are many studies about the will of Muhammad and its authenticity, such as ''The Sacred Will'' by Ahmed Alhasan and ''Frequency of Narrating the Will'' by Nadhem Aloqaili.<ref name="Sacred Will">{{cite book|last= Alhasan |first= Ahmed|title= The Sacred Will: The Statement Protecting from Misguidance|year=2012 |pages=|url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/wasiya.pdf}}</ref><ref>[https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/210-twator-wasiya.pdf Frequency of Narrating the Will (Arabic Version)]</ref><ref>[https://almahdyoon.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Vasiat-3Book.pdf The Will and The Successor, Ahmed Alhasan (Persian Version)]</ref> There exist other narrations in which Muhammad describes his will as a statement after which his nation never goes astray.<ref>[https://www.quranexplorer.com/hadithebook/English/Hadith/bukhari/007.070.573.html Sahih al-Bukhari, 7:70:573, Fath Albari in explaining Sahih Bukhari Hadith number: 5345.  Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:160]</ref><ref>[https://thaqalayn.net/hadith/22/2/4/11 Al-Ghaybah by Al-Noa’mani, 81. The book of Occultation English version pg. 87]</ref> Ahmed al-Hasan by emphasizing this description, states the first person who brings this will as his identifying text must be the true claimant.<ref name="Sacred Will"/>

Ahmed al-Hasan has claimed, "I am the Messenger of Imam [[Mahdi]], and I am his vicegerent, and I am the first of the twelve Mahdis from the sons of Imam Mahdi".<ref name="بيان الحق والسداد الجزء الثاني">{{cite book|last=الحسن|first=احمد|title=بيان الحق والسداد|year=2006 |pages=16 |url=http://www.almahdyoon.org/arabic/documents/books-saed/Bayan-l7a9-al2a3dad-2.pdf}}</ref><ref name= "40 nar">{{cite book|last= Aloqaili |first= Nadhem|title= "Forty Narrations about Mahdis and Offspring of Riser" |year=2011 |pages= |url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/40-feMahdyin.pdf}}</ref> He claims he is the Yamani, who paves the way for the appearance of Imam Mahdi, after his [[Major Occultation|major occultation]].<ref name="Moneer">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first= Ahmed|title= "Enlightening Answers across the Ether, Vol 1 (Original Arabic)"|year=2010 |pages= |url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Al-Jawab-AlMonir-1.pdf }}</ref> The appearance of Al-Yamani is one of the major [[signs of the appearance of the Mahdi]], the 12th Imam of Shi'a Muslims.<ref>[https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/22/2/14 Narration from Muhammad al-Baqir about al-Yamani (The Book of Occultation by al-Nu'mani)]</ref>

Also concerning the Sunni Muslims, as it is narrated in their narration books, Muhammad named the Mahdi ''The Vicegerent of God Al-Mahdi'', and has urged people to pledge allegiance to him.<ref>[https://ketabonline.com/ar/books/40585/read?part=4&page=1531&index=3653912/3653942 السلسلة الصحيحة للألباني: برقم 1529]</ref><ref>[https://quranx.com/hadith/IbnMajah/DarusSalam/Volume-5/Book-36/Hadith-4084 Narration from Muhammad (the vicegerent of God, al-Mahdi)]</ref><ref name="Welcome Mahdi">{{cite book|last= |first= |title= "Welcome to The Vicegerent of God, The Mahdi"|year=2013 |pages=|url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/koras-sunna.pdf
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Ahmed al-Hasan, in some of his books like ''The Allegories'' and ''The Sacred Will'', interprets some verses of the Quran that mention Imam Mahdi, himself, and the twelve Mahdis.<ref>{{cite book|last= Alhasan |first= Ahmed|title= The Sacred Will: The Statement Protecting from Misguidance|year=2012 |pages= 11|url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/wasiya.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Alhasan |first= Ahmed |title= The Allegories (Vol 4) |year= 2010 |pages= 250 (Question 155)|url= https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Motachabihat-1-2-3-4.pdf}}</ref>

===Christians===
{{Quote box|width=25em |align=right |quote= "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together."|source=Matthew 24:23-28 (KJV)}}
Ahmed al-Hasan has introduced himself as the messenger of Imam al-Mahdi, Jesus, and Elijah.<ref name="Successor in books English"/> He has brought forth many verses of the Bible as his identifying text. Among these texts, one can mention the ''one sitting on the throne'' and the ''twenty-four elders'' mentioned in the Book of [[John's Revelation]].<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/111/REV.4.NIV Revelation chapter 4]</ref> He interprets them as Muhammad and his twenty-four successors, i.e. the twelve Imams and the twelve Mahdis mentioned in Muhammad's will.<ref name="13b">{{cite book|last= Alhasan |first= Ahmed|title= The Thirteenth Disciple|year= 2012 |pages=|url= https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/13th-Disciple.pdf}}</ref> Also, he has introduced himself as the ''comforter'' sent by Jesus mentioned in the [[Gospel of John]],<ref>John chapters 14 and 16</ref><ref name = "Letter of Guidance">{{cite book|last= Alhasan |first= Ahmed|title= The Letter of Guidance|year= 2010 |pages=|url= https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/letterofguidance.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Jawab AlMuneer q92">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "الجواب المنير عبر الأثير(Vol2)"|year=2010 |pages= 69 (Question 92) |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Al-Jawab-AlMonir-2.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Successor in books English">{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran (English Translation)"|year=2010 |pages= |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/successorandmessenger.pdf}}</ref> the ''Son of Man'' coming from the east and the ''faithful and sensible slave'' in the [[Gospel of Matthew]],<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/111/MAT.24.NIV Matthew chapter 24]</ref><ref name="Ahmed the Promised One"/><ref name="Successor in books English"/> ''one like a son of man'' on the white cloud,<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/111/REV.14.NIV Revelation chapter 14]</ref><ref name="Ahmed the Promised One">{{cite book|last=Alsalem|first=Alaa|title= "Ahmed the Promised One (English Translation)"|year=2012 |pages= |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Promised-One-Ahmed.pdf}}</ref> and the ''lamb'' in the Revelation of John <ref>Revelation, chapters 4, 5, 14, etc</ref> In addition to these verses from the [[New Testament]], Ahmed al-Hassan also presented other verses from the [[Old Testament]] as identifying texts, the interpretations of which are available in his books.<ref name="Successor in books English"/><ref name = "Letter of Guidance"/><ref name="13b"/>

===Jews===
{{Quote box|width=25em |align=right |quote= "'I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."|source=Daniel 7:13-14 (KJV)}}
There are other verses in the old testament that Jews also believe in, and Ahmed al-Hasan has brought them up as his identifying text. For example, in the [[book of Isaiah]] chapter 11, he has interpreted that ''the shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse'' as Imam Al-Mahdi, and ''the branch from his roots'' as himself.<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/100/ISA.11.NASB1995 Isaiah, chapter 11]</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran (English Translation)"|year=2010 |pages= 14 |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/successorandmessenger.pdf}}</ref>
Ahmed al-Hassan has interpreted ''The Ancient of Days'' mentioned in the [[book of Daniel]] as referring to Imam Al-Mahdi.<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/100/DAN.7.NASB1995 Daniel, chapter 7]</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran (English Translation)"|year=2010 |pages= 17 |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/successorandmessenger.pdf}}</ref> In the same verse, ''One like a Son of Man'' that came up to ''The Ancient of Days'' is also interpreted as the messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi, Ahmed al-Hasan himself.<ref>{{cite book|last=Alsalem|first=Alaa|title= "Ahmed the Promised One (English Translation)"|year=2012 |pages= 66 |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Promised-One-Ahmed.pdf}}</ref> Ahmed al-Hasan brings forth ''The Stone'' seen in the vision of [[Nebuchadnezzar]], the king of Babylon, in the book of Daniel<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/100/DAN.2.NASB1995 Daniel, chapter 2]</ref> as another identifying text.<ref>{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= الجواب المنير عبر الأثير (Vol 4)|year=2011 |pages= 56 |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Al-Jawab-AlMonir-4.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Alhasan|first=Ahmed|title= "The Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran (English Translation)"|year=2010 |pages= 15 |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/successorandmessenger.pdf}}</ref> There exist other verses interpreted as referring to Ahmed al-Hasan and his matter.<ref>[https://www.bible.com/bible/100/ISA.63.NASB1995 Isaiah, chapter 63]</ref><ref name="Ahmed the Promised One"/> Multiple books have been written about the evidence of this call, the connection between these texts, and why they refer to their interpreted characters like Imam Al-Mahdi and Ahmed al-Hasan. Among these works by the followers of Ahmed al-Hasan concerning the Bible, one can mention the books by Adil Alsaeedi, Alas Alsalem, Abdurazaq Aldeeravi, Ali Abdulreza, Sadiq Al-Muhammadi, and Hussain Al-Mansuri.<ref name="Ahmed the Promised One"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Alsaeedi|first=Adil|title= "The Glad Tidings of Ahmed, the Comforter and Discussions of the Christian Doctrine (English Translation)"|year=2011 |pages= |url=https://www.saviorofmankind.com/wp-content/uploads/Ahmed-the-Comforter-and-the-Christianity-Doctrine.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Alsaeedi|first=Adil|title= البشارة بالمعزي احمد|year=2011 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mo3azi.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Mansuri|first=Hussain|title= مجمع نيقية|year=2011 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ni9iya.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Aldeeravi|first= Abdurazaq |title= الشبيه عیسی (من هو المصلوب)|year=2010 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/shabeh.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Abdulreza|first= Ali |title= خطاب عيسى عن القيامة الصغرى|year=2013 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/184-khetab-issa.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Muhammadi|first= Sadiq |title= المسيح سر الله |year=2011 |pages= |url=https://almahdyoon.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/massi7-sir-ALLAH.pdf}}</ref>